Company Overview
Our upstream providers, including IS and Telkom connect many private, semi-government and government enterprises to each other and to the Internet, forming the de facto basis for the business Internet community in South Africa. Carrier-class networking and server equipment (from companies like Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM and Sun Microsystems) is used throughout both the IS and Telkom network and provides users with the required assurance that they are dealing with trusted core suppliers when connected to the Internet for business purposes.
By basing our primary ISP backbone (first tier services) on the IS service, with secondary connections to the Telkom SAIX service, our clients receive the benefits of being able to communicate via email, access web services and transact business with the vast majority of the South African Business community, often WITHOUT EVER HAVING TO LEAVE THE IS OR TELKOM PRIVATE BACKBONES.
The result of this is, for example, when you conduct business over the internet or communicate via email with any SAI Futurenet or IS client, you connect directly over a private network, without breaking out to the Internet at large. This means that most of your internet business interaction will remain on the fast, secure and reliable IS and SAI Futurenet network.
The SAI Futurenet network infrastructure is connected by high speed Local Area Network technology to, and is in effectively an extension of the IS infrastructure, forming a network fully focused on and specifically designed to provide the foundations for electronic commerce and electronic business in South Africa.
